PRESS RELEASE - Gods of the Void announcement
After recently returning from a deployment with the Army National Guard, Andrew Valenza is getting ready to release his next novel for this summer.
Valenza is the author of the series “The Empire Marathon,” which began with the space-opera “Empire of the Void” in 2023, and followed up with the jungle, creature-feature themed “Lost World of the Void” in 2024. This June, “Gods of the Void,” a cosmic horror novel, will take the series to new heights.
“I’m very excited about this one,” Valenza said. “I’ve put so much more of myself into this book, spent a lot more time on it than the previous titles, and think it has a depth that a lot of people will really resonate with.”
The series follows a married couple from an alternate timeline Earth, as they accidentally discover a galactic empire led by a god-like being, and must fight to protect the location of Earth so that humanity is not consumed. Each book in the series takes on a different sub-genre of science fiction, giving readers a trip through the different eras of sci-fi film history.
About the constantly changing tones and style, Valenza said, “What I think is really fun about this series is that you’ll never get the same experience from one book to the next. There will never be ‘sequelitis’ because the books fundamentally are not allowed to be too similar from one to the next. It’s the same characters and sci-fi rules we follow, but it’s like going from ‘Flash Gordon,’ to ‘King Kong,’ to ‘Alien.’”
Early reviews hail “Gods of the Void” as the best in the series. Chris Jones from Overly Honest Reviews calls it the “kind of installment that redefines what the series is capable of and what it’s building toward.”
Valenza, a Queensbury native, currently serves as a Staff Sergeant in the New York Army National Guard as a Public Affairs Non-Commissioned Officer in the 42nd Infantry Division. In March of this year, he returned home from a deployment to the Middle East, where he operated under Task Force Spartan.
Valenza currently runs Valenza Publishing, where, on top of writing novels, he publishes the literary works of other authors, including his old High School creative writing teacher, J.T. McGee.
Signing events for the book have already been set up with booksellers and festival planners across the Northeast Region, including in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Press copies of the trilogy, or individual titles, are available upon request with media kits. More can be found on Valenza and VP at www.valenzapublishing.com. Andrew can be reached via email at andrewvalenza@valenzapublishing.com, or by phone at 518-307-8384.
